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As America debates whether to send tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan, in the ninth year of a war for ends we cannot discern, a riveting new history recalls times when Americans fought for vital national interests.
"A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent" is Robert Merry's brilliant biography and history of that time. Merry goes far toward righting the injustice done by historians who have denied this great man his place in the pantheon of presidents,...
Polk: Forgotten Great
There is no way that this wasn't going to lead to an armed conflict at some point. And this issue was solved with a minimum of bloodshed. How many tens of millions died in wars to determine dominance of Europe? How many died in this war, 10,000? I'msupposed to feel shame about this?
Don't forgret about the encroachment...